Phillies Minor League Report: Small sample sizes, but Sixto …

Time to check in on the farm system after a week of all-star breaks and rainy weather.

LEHIGH VALLEY

Highlights:

Scott Kingery: .300/.323/.533, 6 XBH, 15 K, 4 BB, 60 AB
J.P. Crawford: .214/.328/.338, 19 XBH, 57 K, 50 BB, 290 AB
Jesen Therrien: 23.2 IP, 1.52 ERA, 22 K, 4 BB

A light week for the Pigs that included the all-star break (Jorge Alfaro, Rhys Hoskins and Tom Eshelman played). Crawford is hitting much better over the last month or so, as the average slowly climbs away from the Mendoza Line.

READING

Highlights:

Zachary Coppola: .266/.354/.309, 5 XBH, 24 K, 20 BB, 139 AB
Mitch Walding: .236/.333/.539, 35 XBH, 100 K, 35 BB, 267 AB
Drew Anderson: 83.1 IP, 3.56 ERA, 71 K, 27 BB
Victor Arano

: 18.2 IP, 1.93 ERA, 16 K, 3 BB

At 51-39 the Fightins’ would be the top team in the Eastern League’s Western Division, but instead they’re 9.5 games behind Trenton in the Eastern. Walding was named Eastern League Player of the Month for June, smacking 13 home runs in that month to bring his total to 21. Arano is firing on all cylinders after an injury kept him out until the end of May. Meanwhile fellow reliever Yacksel Rios has moved up to Lehigh Valley.

CLEARWATER

Highlights:

Cornelius Randolph: .257/.355/.408, 22 XBH, 88 K, 42 BB, 284 AB
Luis Encarnacion: .385/.429/.462, 1 XBH, 5 K, 1 BB, 13 AB
Franklyn Kilome: 80 IP, 2.59 ERA, 68 K, 32 BB
Jose Taveras: 95 IP, 2.37 ERA, 86 K, 23 BB
Harold Arauz: 34 IP, 1.06 ERA, 31 K, 5 BB

A 3-3 week for the Threshers. Encarnacion is back in Williamsport, while Randolph continues to improve at the plate, showing good discipline while bumping his average into respectability.

LAKEWOOD

Highlights:

Mickey Moniak: .267/.318/.387, 26 XBH, 69 K, 21 BB, 318 AB
Henri Lartigue: .276/.312/.463, 31 XBH, 60 K, 13 BB, 246 AB
Sixto Sanchez: 56.1 IP, 2.88 ERA, 54 K, 6 BB
JoJo Romero: 76.2 IP, 2.11 ERA, 79 K, 21 BB
Nick Fanti: 80.1 IP, 2.80 ERA, 82 K, 16 BB

More good pitching from the ol’ Claws. Every Sanchez start is now an event, with multiple members of the media penning some sort of wide-eyed recap (he was good this week). Moniak may be “struggling” in Lakewood, but don’t fret about the 19-year-old having a relatively normal year in low-A.

WILLIAMSPORT

Highlights:

Adam Haseley: .347/.431/.490, 5 XBH, 10 K, 7 BB, 49 AB
Jake Scheiner: .288/.356/.439, 8 XBH, 14 K, 4 BB, 66 AB
Kyle Young: 23.1 IP, 1.16 ERA, 30 K, 6 BB
Julian Garcia: 21 IP, 1.29 ERA, 30 K, 7 BB

The Crosscutters had a weird, wet week in Norwich, Connecticut. Now they’re back home and winning. 2017 fourth-round pick Scheiner is putting up good numbers thus far (he plays third base).

ROOKIE LEAGUES

Highlights:

Quincy Nieporte: .400/.486/.900, 8 XBH, 2 K, 2 BB, 30 AB
Jonathan Guzman: .340/.364/.472, 5 XBH, 6 K, 3 BB
Maximo De La Rosa: .280/.341/.440, 10 XBH, 17 K, 7 BB
Nicolas Torres: .315/.358/.394, 8 XBH, 127 AB
Sandro Rosario: 18 IP, 3.50 ERA, 15 K, 7 BB
Leonel Aponte: 34.2 IP, 1.30 ERA, 29 K, 6 BB
Ludovico Coveri: 27.2 IP, 0.65 ERA, 20 K, 4 BB
Ramon Rosso: 36.2 IP, 0.98 ERA, 47 K, 11 BB
Bryan Alcala: 28 IP, 2.57 ERA, 21 K, 9 BB

A pretty good first 30 at bats for Nieporte in the GCL. Rosso looks like the star arm in the Phils’ DSL operation thus far.

Tim Malcolm

Tim first found the Phillies as a little infant at Veteran’s Stadium, cheering on a Juan Samuel game-winning home run in his very first game. With the pinstripes in his blood, he witnessed Terry Mulholland’s 1990 no-hitter, “Steve Carlton Night” at the Vet, game three of the 1993 World Series, countless games during the charmed 2008 championship season and various road excursions. Since November 2007 Tim’s been writing about them daily at Phillies Nation, becoming one of the world’s most popular Phillies scribes. You can catch him on Twitter and Facebook, as well. When he’s not talking about the Phils he’s relaxing with a St. Bernardus ABT 12 or one of his many favored brews.